TOO EXPENSIVE TO REHAB-- -- NOT HISTORICALLY - SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO PROTECT. THE CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO RESCIND HISTORICAL PROTECTIONS FOR TWIN BUILDINGS AT TURNER BOULEVARD AND FARNAM. THE VOTE CLEARS THE WAY FOR MUTUAL OF OMAHA TO DEMOLISH THE CLARINDA AND PAGE FOR MORE MIDTOWN DEVELOPMENT. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S KRISTYNA ENGDAHL IS LIVE WITH DETAILS. THOSE SEEKING TO PROTECT THE CLARINDA AND THE PAGE SAY MUTUAL OF OMAHA PRESSURED THE BE LOST BY REMOVING ITS LANDMARK STATUS.. BUT DEVELOPERS-- AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN ONE OF THESE BUILDINGS-- SAY IT'S SIMPLY NOT FEASIBLE TO KEEP THEM STANDING. TO SOME..IT'S A TREASURED GLIMPSE INTO OMAHA'S PAST - WITH IT'S RED-BRICK-WALLS AND TALL, WHITE COLUMNS.SOTBUT TO OTHERS - THE CLARINDA-PAGE, NOW FILLED WITH PARTIALLY- VACANT-CONDO S ..IS AN EYE-SORE - AND A áBAD áINVESTMENT.SOT - "I have a buyer, let me sell."JACK RYAN IS ONE OF EIGHT CONDO-OWNERS - HE PURCHASED áHIS FOR ABOUT 97-THOUSAND DOLLARS. HE SAYS THE VALUE NOW? ABOUT 42- THOUSAND DOLLARS.SOT - "who's going to give me that." "I'm embarrassed I made a bad investment."AND RYAN SAYS EVERY SINGLE CONDO OWNER IS ON- BOARD - EVEN, AS A WHOLE - APPROACHING MUTUAL OF OMAHA, ASKING TO SELL.SOT - "Where's the solution going to be if we IN THE END CLARINDA-PAGE'S HISTORICAL LAND-MARK STATUS COULDN'T SURVIVE HOURS OF DEBATE - WITH HOPEFUL- DEVELOPERS..SOT -- "there's pictures; "there's no historical significance"BUT THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO ACCUSED THE CITY OF GUTTING OMAHA'S RESTORATION OF THE BUILDING - INSTEAD OF DEMOLITION.SOT - "seen no evidence that the Clarinda is unsound." - First guySOT - "It'll make me fear for the rest of midtown's historical landmarks" - Adam AndrewsBUT DEVELOPERS SAY IT'S A BUILDING THAT FRANKLY - IS TOO FAR GONE, WITH áNO ONE WILLING TO INVEST THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO BRING IT BACK.SOT - among last sound, "it's dying on the vine.. people have looked at it"SOT - "there's a lot of talk" GrayBUT PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS TO SAVE THE BUILDING FELL FLAT AND THE COUNCIL VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO REMOVE ITS LANDMARK STATUS. WE HEARD FROM MULTIPLE

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